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Why run

5 reasons to participate

Run to cure

In Europe, 35,000 children and young people between the ages of 0 and 23 are diagnosed with cancer every year. Little is known about the causes of these cancers and there are many different types. This makes each type of paediatric cancer a rare disease that struggles to attract sufficient scientific research.

As a result, survival rates have stagnated over the past 20 years and children continue to be treated with drugs that are sometimes more than 50 years old – while over the same period, innovation exploded for adults.

The treatments aren’t only old, they are also toxic and 2/3 of the children who recover, experience severe side effects (like secondary cancers caused by the treatment of the first cancer, amputation or blindness). .

To boost research in paediatric oncology and select the most promising projects in Europe, our Foundation, the French association Imagine for Margo, the Fondatioun Kriibskrank Kanner in Luxembourg and the the Spanish CRIS Cancer Foundation, have joined forces and launched the FIGHT KIDS CANCER initiative. The funds you will raise for RUN TO KICK will be pooled together with those from France, Luxembourg and Spain. They will be used to finance the best research projects in Europe. The goal is to reach € 5.25 million together!

Run to care

RUN TO KICK is an opportunity for families affected by children’s cancer to get together and gather around them their friends and colleagues who didn’t know how to help them during this storm.

Mobilizing others to advance research is also a great group therapy for these families.

Come and experience this festive, positive, light and moving moment that pays tribute to those who are fighting or have fought against cancer. It’s a sheer dose of hope and solidarity.

Run to be together

Running, walking, crawling, or being carried? It doesn’t matter!

At RUN TO KICK, it’s the one who raises the most money that goes up the podium!

No need to be a great sportsman: RUN TO KICK brings together all ages and all physical conditions. What they have in common is that they all have a furious desire to kick children’s cancer far away!

This is the perfect opportunity to steal away the podium from your marathoner friend!

Families, friends, businesses… Everyone can participate in RUN TO KICK!

Run to be fit

2 km, 5 km, 10 km… choose the challenge that fits you best!

Everybody is moving, but (almost) nobody is a real sportsman at RUN TO KICK. In any case, if you haven’t raced in 5 years or 6 months, you won’t risk arriving last.

In fact, this is the perfect opportunity to get back into sport with joy, pursuing a noble goal! RUN TO KICK has no time registration, so no one will know your real running time ;-)

On the other hand, it’s just like a real race: with a warm-up session, provision stands with healthy products, stretching and running t-shirts are offered!

Run to enjoy

Mark Sunday the 24th of September in your agenda! We will be expecting you in Osseghem Park (around the corner of the Atomium) in Brussels to experience RUN TO KICK together. We already know in advance that it will be a fantastic day you’ll always remember. We are happy to organise a professional event, with the best atmosphere, a sporty experience, entertainment… and a strong feeling of togetherness.

Registration

Do you run, jog, walk, roll or crawl but above all, feel like shooting kids’ cancer far way? Then join us!

Whether you want to participate alone or in a team, it all starts with creating your own individual fundraising page.

I’m becoming a Kicker

1. Click on the button I register and fill in your personal information, choose your track and select your t-shirt size.
2. Create your personal fundraising page, add a nice picture and a personal presentation text. The more you customise your page, the more your friends will want to support your effort!
3. Choose a password to manage and edit your page later.
4. Finalise your own registration and pay the 10€ fees. Once your fundraising page is paid for, it will be published and you will soon receive an email confirming the completion of your registration.
5. Off you go! You can start fundraising like a champ now! Want some inspiration?
6. We explain everything here!.

I’m raising an army of Kickers

Good! This allows you to join forces and raise as much as possible to fund the fight against children’s cancer because don't forget that every runner of the team remains obligated to raise €200 minimum (€100 for minors and students under 25) in order to be allowed to participate in RUN TO KICK.

I register and create my own team immediately

1. Click on the button I register
2. If you’d like to register children or other persons on your account proceed with the registration procedure as many times as the number of people you want to register.
3. Pay all registrations at the same time.
4. When all registrations are completed, proceed by clicking on the "I create a team" button.
5. Pick a nice picture and write a short text introducing your team.
6. You will soon receive an email confirming the completion of your registration and the creation of your team.
7. You can start inviting your friends to join your team and of course, start your fundraising like a champ!

I am already registered and want to create a team later

Login to your account and choose one of these options

1. Go to the page All teams and click on the “I create a team” button.
2. Go to your personal space: My pages > RUN TO KICK 2023 > My teams and click on “I create a team”.

I want to join an existing team of Kickers

I want to join a team

It’s as easy as going to the page “All teams” and look for their team’s name in our search engine on the top of your screen and clicking on “I register with this team”. Then, fill in the registration form.

I am already registered and want to join a team

Log into your account first (top right of the screen). Then, look for your team’s name with our search engine on the top of the screen and click on “I join this team”.

I want to kick cancer with my colleagues

Great idea! If your company is eager to support your team by sponsoring the registration costs and/or the team’s fundraising effort, please contact here and we shall be happy to create your team page.

We shall provide you with a secret registration link that should be shared within the company only. This link will enable every prospective runner to benefit from the advantages agreed with your company.

What we finance thanks to you

In 2020, we started allocating 100% of the funds raised by our participants to research projects selected in the framework of the FIGHT KIDS CANCER call for European projects.

FIGHT KIDS CANCER is a joint initiative by KickCancer, Imagine for Margo (France), the Fondatioun Kriib- skrank Kanner (Luxembourg) and the CRIS Cancer Foundation (Spain). Our aim is to accelerate the most innovative treatments thanks to European financing and collaboration of research on paediatric cancers.

FIGHT KIDS CANCER is developed in collaboration with the European Science Foundation and a committee of international independent experts who help us select the best research projects.

In Belgium, France, Luxembourg and Spain as well as in other European countries in the future, these projects are financed thanks to the organisation of our charity family races. When more runners participate or their motivation to fundraise increases, the amount we can invest in research follows suit.

Participate in RUN TO KICK 2023 by running, walking or donating to one of your friends that participate or by sponsoring us and shooting kids’ cancer forever away!

RUN TO KICK 2023: go for 1 million!

In September 2022, we launched our fourth FIGHT KIDS CANCER call for projects for a total amount of €5.25 million. KickCancer aims to fund €1 million of this thanks to RUN TO KICK 2023

Through these projects, we hope to foster improvements in the knowledge and treatment of the following diseases: B-cell non-Hodgkin’s lymphomas (clinical trial), ewing’s sarcomas (clinical trial), medulloblastomas (translational project), neuroblastomas (2 translational projects)

The projects we will fund with RUN TO KICK 2023 will be selected and announced in June. Follow our social media channels to be informed immediately!

RUN TO KICK 2022

1.652 runners participated in the fith edition of RUN TO KICK and fundraised together €725 000. They have done massive fundraising together, totalling: 1 042 013 euros!

Thanks to them we were able to finance 7 FIGHT KIDS CANCER projects. Through these projects, we want to make significant progress in the knowledge and treatment of the following diseases: neuroblastoma (one clinical trial and two translational translational projects), leukaemia and lymphoma (one clinical trial), leukaemia (two translational projects: one for acute lymphoblastic leukaemia and one for acute myeloid leukaemia), and one clinical trial for all tumors.

RUN TO KICK 2021

1 099 runners participated in this hybrid edition and fundraised together €728 111.

Thanks to them we were able to finance 5 FIGHT KIDS CANCER projects. Through these projects, we hope to make significant progress in the knowledge and treatment of the following diseases: B-cell non-Hodgkin lymphoma (clinical trial), Ewing’s sarcoma (clinical trial), Medulloblastoma (translational project), Neuroblastoma (2 translational projects n°1 & n°2)

RUN TO KICK 2020

770 runners participated in an exceptional connected edition and fundraised together €610 000. Thanks to them we were able to finance the first 6 FIGHT KIDS CANCER projects for €800 000. Thanks to those projects, we hope to enable major progress in the understanding and treatments of the following diseases: high-grade gliomas (one clinical trial and one translational project), acute myeloïd leukaemias, rhabdoid tumours, osteosarcomas and neuroblastomas.

RUN TO KICK 2019

1350 runners participated in the second edition and fundraised together €630 000. Thanks to them, we were able to renew our structural support to the working costs of the BSPHO and finance, together with Fondatioun Kriibskrank Kanner (Luxemburg) and Imagine for Margo (France) the E-SMART project, a clinical trial with an innovative design, which aims at developing targeted therapies for children with a refractory or relapsing disease.

RUN TO KICK 2018

680 runners participated in this first edition and fundraised together €326 000. Thanks to them, we were able to finance a first year of structural support to the working costs of the BSPHO. The aim of this financing is to enable the Belgian centres to coordinate their research activities in order to make them more effective and improve the care provided to Belgian patients.

Fundraising

Every runner is expected to raise 200€ minimum (100€ for minors and students under 25) through his/her RUN TO KICK fundraising page.

You can share your own page, your team's or your tribe’s page to solicit donations. If your supporter chooses to make a donation on your team's or tribe’s page, the donation will automatically be equally split between the team members who are registered at the moment of the donation.

No worries, fundraising goes much easier than you think! Especially for you, we gathered the best advice from the best world experts on fundraising on this page.

In any case, 100% of the funds you raised will be used to fund research against children’s cancer.

You want to find out which projects KickCancer finances with your gifts? Please click here to find out more about our projects.

Donation & tax reduction

If you want to support a runner, look for his or her name on the top of our page with our search engine. Then, click on “I donate”. If you don’t find him or her, ask to send you the link to his or her page.

You can also decide to support a whole team or a tribe at once. In that case, your donation will automatically be equally split between the team or tribe members who are registered at the time of your donation.

Your name, first name and email address will be communicated to the runner, the team captain or the creator of the tribe, depending on the type of page you will have supported.

Your first name will be mentioned on the page benefitting from the gift. If you do not agree, click on “Make my donation anonymous".

Thanks to our generous partners, 100% of the donations are used to finance research projects which aim at finding innovative treatments, improving existing ones and kicking children’s cancer to send it far, far away forever and may it never come back!

We have chosen reliable and experienced partners (Raise&Shine and Stripe) for your donations and the registration of your personal information. Your data are safe and handled in confidence.

If you donate €40 or more over the course of a whole tax year (2023), you will receive during the first trimester of 2024 a tax certificate issued by the King Baudouin Foundation which manage your donations through the KickCancer Fund (paired with the KickCancer Foundation) and entitles you to a tax reduction of up to 45% of the amount given.

RUN TO KICK : The race

Accessibility

The RUN TO KICK village is easy to reach.

The only entrance to the village is through the avenue du Gros Tilleul (Dikkelindelaan (NL); number 4), between Osseghem Park and Laeken Park, within walking distance of the Atomium.

Kids' Corner

Are your children coming with you? That's great!

Our Kids’ Corner welcomes children from 2.5 to 7 years old so that you can enjoy the race to the fullest.

We have a great programme just for your little ones (and not so little ones too): great arts and crafts workshops, fun games and lots of other surprises!

Of course, everything will be well supervised for the safety of all.

Do you want to register your children at the Kids’ Corner? Follow the next steps and be sure to bring your confirmation mail to RUN TO KICK.

How?

— Log in to your account.
— Click on ‘RUN TO KICK 2023’. There you will see your page(s).
— Click on ‘options’.
— Check the option ‘Kids’ Corner’.
— Click on ‘save’.

You will receive a confirmation mail when the subscriptions are closed.

Activities

Stay with us after the race!

There will be plenty to enjoy in the RUN TO KICK village and for all ages.